Austrian and Polish universities join Aalto-led Unite! alliance

13 Jan 2022 | Network Updates | Update from Aalto University
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With the expansion from seven to nine members, Unite! University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering increases its impact on the European Higher Education Area.

Aalto University and other Unite! partners are pleased to welcome two new partners to the alliance - Graz University of Technology (Austria) and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland). Together the nine partners will have more than 200,000 students and annually more than  40,000 graduates. "With this new configuration of nine full partners in the future, Unite! will be able to deepen and broaden its path to success. The new Erasmus+ call also gives us the opportunity to define this path ahead of us," stated The President of Unite! Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl.

Engineering, science, and technology in a social context

The Unite! network was founded in 2019 as a result of the European Commission’s initiative to transform the European Higher Education Area by 2025. European Universities are consortia of universities within the Union that contribute to increasing the  international competitiveness of  HEI’s in Europe

The founding members of Unite! are seven leading European technical and comprehensive universities - The University of Grenoble (INP UGA) in France, the University of Lisbon in Portugal, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, Aalto University in Finland, the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona Tech) in Spain.

This article was first published on 12 January by Aalto University.

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